Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-20

is worse than an iuiidel." Life insur-
ance companies help most OF us 10
provide for our families after we are
ROM; but, il we have the money to
pay the premiums aud do not pay
them, We have no right to expect
mercy ut the hand of God in the iudg- !
ment. We are worse than Tom Paine.
whorse than Voitaire, and worse than
Shaftesbury. The Bible declares 1t
we are worse than an infidet. After
the certificate of death has been made
out, and thirty or sixty days have
passed. and the o1.cer Of a life insur-
W ce company comes into the beret
household, and pays down the hard
cash on on insurance policy, that OIL
Ger of the company is performing a
| positively religious rite, according to
the Apostle Ja~les, who says: True
religion and undeliled before God and
the Father is this: To visit the father
less and the widow in their atlliction,'
and SO on.
THE RELIGION OF CHRIST
proposed to take care Of the temporal
wants of the people IA well as the
spiritual. When Hezekiah was dying
the injunction came to him: ''Set thy
house IN order, for thoa shalt die and
not live" That injunction in our day
would mean: make your will; settle
up your accounts; make things plain
don't deceive your heirs with rolls
of worthless mining stock; don't de-
ceive them with deeds for western
lands that never yield any crop but
chills and fever; don't leave for them
notes that have been outlawed, and
second mortgages on property that will
not pay the first" ''Set thy house in
order" That is, fix up things, so your
going out of the world may make as
little coh~sternatio- rs possible. See
the lean cattle devouring the fat cattle,
and in the time of plenty prepare for
the time of want. The difficulty IL,
when men think of their death, they
are afraid to think of it only in connec
ton with their spiritual welfare, and
not of the devastation in the household
which will come because of their emf.
grafton from it. 1t is meanly selfish
for You to be so absorbed in the heaven
to which you are going that you forget
what is to become OF your wife ano
children after you are dead. You Cal
90 out Of this world without leaving I
dollar and die happy if you could no
provide for them; and you "A trus'
J them in the lands of the God whC
+, owns all the harvestS, and the herds
D and the hocks; but if you could pa,
| the premiums on n policy and neglec
them, it is "a mean thing for you to g
I up to heaven while they go into th'
poor house. You, at death, move int
j a mansion, river front, and they NOV
into two rooms on the fourth story of
tenement house in n back street. Whe
they are out at the elbows and knees
the thought of
l. YOUR SPLENDID ROBE IN HEAVEN
will not keep them warm. The minis
IL ter may preach q splendid sermon owe
d your remains, and the quartet,
It may sing like four angels in the orga
! loft; but your death will be 4 swindl,
You had the means to provide for til
i comfort of your household when 70
G left it. 90" says some one, II hay
more faith than you; | believe when
Y 90 out of this word, the Lord will pre-
: vide for them" Go to Blackwell
' Island, go through al the poor house
o of the country, and | will show yo
If how often God provides for the ne!
.. 1nntnI ahilIrnn of nnnlantFn1 narnnt
= That is, He provides for them throue
public charity. As for myself, | wouI
J rather have the Lord provide for n
l. family in a private home, and throug
1t my own industry, and %paternal, an
% conjugal faithtnlness. But says son
man: Il mean in the next ten or tweI
ty years to make a great fortune, an
SO / shall leave my fam ly, when | 2
d out of this world, very comfortable.
How do you know you ale going (
:. live ten or twenty years? If we coul
look up the highway of the future, "
IS would see it crossed by pneumonia
d and pleurisies, and consumptions, an
colliding rail trains, and run-awa
. horses, and breaking bridges, an
funeral professions. Are you SO ceI
tain you are going to live ten or twent
q years, you can warrant your househol
any comfort after you go away frol
them? Beside that
II VAST MAJORITY
o of men die poor! Two only out of
hundred succeed in business. Are yo
. very certain you are going to be n {
the twop Rich one day. poor tn
$ next. A man in New York got tw
q millions of dollars, and the none
i, turned his brain, and be died in III
l~nnatrc asylum, All his property wa
left with the business firm, and the
swampcd IT,; and then the family of til
insane man were left without IL dollar
! In eighteen months the prosperity. TN
insanity, the insolvency, ard the con
plete domestic ruin. Beside that, Il er
are men who die solvent, who are n
solvent before they get under t.
: ground, or before their estate is settl,
I no. How soon the a~uctioneer's MALE
4 ian k.lock the life out Of an estate.
nan thinks the property is worth II
-, teen thousand dollars; under a force
sale il brings seven thousand dollars
= The business mnn takes